27 Feb 11, 11:47PM
Well, if you can show me a site providing material for your usage (you said "royalty free") that contains copyrighted-material I can show you a scam-website ;-)
I highly doubt they'd have the permission to publish that photo - OFC it's a different matter if you put up a photo of your mercedes on a gallery or for selling it.
And you should be careful about the notion of "simply reworking" media to get rid of possibly incriminating pieces - copyright is a very hard to fathom area; it's really safest to steer clear of any possible infringements. OFC that doesn't make life any easier.
In my experience the "royalty free"-licenses mostly come with the "give attribution"-clause or the "non-commercial"-clause. I really don't know what would happen if you took a photo of your car and put it into circulation (e.g. by using it in an AC map). I really would suggest always to use self-created textures etc. .. it's just safest.
I highly doubt they'd have the permission to publish that photo - OFC it's a different matter if you put up a photo of your mercedes on a gallery or for selling it.
And you should be careful about the notion of "simply reworking" media to get rid of possibly incriminating pieces - copyright is a very hard to fathom area; it's really safest to steer clear of any possible infringements. OFC that doesn't make life any easier.
In my experience the "royalty free"-licenses mostly come with the "give attribution"-clause or the "non-commercial"-clause. I really don't know what would happen if you took a photo of your car and put it into circulation (e.g. by using it in an AC map). I really would suggest always to use self-created textures etc. .. it's just safest.